Luke 14:16-24 During the holiday season we have many unexpected events in our lives: we meet old friends and new friends, we give and receive gifts; there ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 5, 2009 12:49 am
Matt 1:1-25 As we approach the celebration of the feast of our Lord’s birth, we are reminded that the incarnation was not something that was suddenly or ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 10, 2009 9:39 pm
A Christmas sermon from Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco http://www.wadiocese.com/enews_comments.php?id=585_0_14_0_C Another Christmas sermon from Bishop...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 12, 2009 6:02 am
Matt 2:13-23 On this day, the Sunday after the birth of Christ, we recall the Holy Righteous Ones, the kinsmen of the Lord, David the King, Joseph the ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 18, 2009 7:33 pm
Mark 1:1-8; Luke 18:18-27 A few weeks ago, just before the feast of the Nativity of our Lord we observed how all of creation moved together, under the guidance...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 25, 2009 8:40 pm
Matthew 4:12-17 Luke 18:35-43 When you are in a dark place or out at night, it is difficult to see clearly your surroundings. You see shapes and forms in the...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 1, 2009 10:26 pm
Luuke 19: 1-10 The purpose of the law and the prophets, that is the life of the Old Testament, was to show the Hebrew people how they should live so that they...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 8, 2009 7:40 pm
2 Tim 3:10-15 Today we begin the preparation for Great Lent with the readings from the Gospel about the Publican and the Pharisee. In this Gospel we find an ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 17, 2009 3:15 pm
1 Corinthians 6:12-20 “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 22, 2009 8:24 pm
1Corinthians 8:8-9:2 “Meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither if we eat not, are we the worse. … But when you sin...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 1, 2009 8:58 pm
Rom 13:11-14:4 “..now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 9, 2009 4:27 pm
Heb. 11:24-26 & 32-12:2 What an inspiring reading we heard today from the epistle of St Paul to the Hebrews. We heard of the struggles of the Old Testament...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 18, 2009 4:10 am
Hebrews 1:10-2:3 “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 23, 2009 1:06 am
Hebrews 4:14-5:6 Traveling west from my family home in the Great Lakes region to where I now live here amidst the mountains, it is always a comfort when, for...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 29, 2009 9:52 pm
Heb 6:13-20 Almost every kind of boat, large or small, has an anchor. When there is a wind or a tide or a current pulling the boat in the wrong direction, the...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Apr 5, 2009 10:58 pm
Heb 9:11-14 During Great Lent there are particular saints assigned to be remembered on the various Sundays. This week, of course, is St Mary of Egypt, last ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Apr 13, 2009 4:44 am
Phil 4:4-9 Palm Sunday is the harbinger of Pascha – the celebration that leads into Holy Week. Before we enter into the intense, but short, struggle of Holy ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Apr 26, 2009 10:51 pm
Acts 15:12-20 “Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.” These are the words of the angel to the Holy Apostles,...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
May 3, 2009 8:33 pm
Acts 6:1-7 The book of the Acts of the Apostles, from which we read during these Sundays during the Paschal season, is the history of the beginnings of the...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
May 10, 2009 10:40 pm
Acts 9:32-42 Since Pascha we have heard how the Apostles have been doing all those things that our Lord did when He was with them. The sick were healed, the...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
May 17, 2009 10:38 pm
John 4:5-42 When our Lord met this woman, their remarkable conversation began quite simply with a request for a drink of water, but it did not remain simple....
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
May 25, 2009 6:41 pm
Acts 16:16-34 The Holy Apostle Paul and his companion Silas were teaching in the city of Philippi and a certain young slave girl who was possessed of a demon ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jun 3, 2009 6:22 pm
Acts 20:16-18, 28-36 In the Gospel our Lord likens the Church to a flock of sheep of which He is the Great Shepherd. The Holy Fathers also use this idea,...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jun 8, 2009 5:19 am
Acts 2:1-11 The descent of the Holy Spirit described to us in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles is depicted for us in the icon that we see right here...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jun 14, 2009 7:39 pm
Heb 11:33-12:2 What is it that makes a saint? What qualities define sainthood? Today we celebrate the memory of all the saints, known and unknown to us. Who...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jun 22, 2009 12:41 am
Rom 2:10-2:16 In our lives as Orthodox Christians we regularly hear the Gospel read and we read it ourselves as well. We read spiritual books and hear homilies...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jun 28, 2009 7:23 pm
Romans 5:1-10 As a child, I remember a game called connect the dots. On a page there were a whole lot of numbered dots and if you were to take a pencil and ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jul 13, 2009 1:12 am
Romans 10:1-10 Consider the many flowers that we have around us. There are flowers in a multitude of colors and shapes and sizes. Just as one plant blooms and ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jul 19, 2009 11:13 pm
Any group of people that is successful, whether it is a family or a corporation, or some other kind of group, has in it people with different strengths who use...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jul 26, 2009 9:23 pm
Romans 15:1-7 The key virtue, the one that unlocks all the other virtues, is humility. The fathers tell us that humility is the mother of all virtues, in that ...
